After the Blues Today: Chicago Summit 2014, blues guitar great Johnny Winter took the stage…
the story of an opera singer-turned-bluesman who donned wild voodoo-inspired stage garb, became a major influence in shock rock and rap, and raised from coffins as part of his set is something out of the ordinary!
The great Johnny Winter has been the subject of several episodes of Elwood’s BluesMobile.
In the blues, a Hambone is usually, unsurprisingly, a euphemism. Find out how it got into blues song, and who popularized it in this week’s fascinating LOTB column!
“I’m not a rock n roller,” Winter told American Blues Scene. “I’m a bluesman.” From his earliest to his last breath on the road, Winter truly lived up to that statement in every sense of the word.
The murky origins of the fascinating “Griots”, African magic men and their parallells to blues singers.
After releasing his last couple albums on his own label, Lurrie Bell is back on Delmark Records with Blues in My Soul.
David Whiteis’ Southern Soul-Blues is the first full length book to take on southern soul music, which has developed a loyal following in the south
Earlier in the year, it was announced that acclaimed actor Don Cheadle would be playing Miles Davis in an upcoming biopic. Now see the first glimpse of Cheadle as Miles, in a stunning picture.
Get ready to hear powerful blues in an amazingly scenic Southern California location to benefit the Big Bear Alpine Zoo!